Alan MacLeod
Alan MacLeod is a member of the Glasgow University Media Group. He is author of "Bad News From Venezuela: 20 Years of Fake News and Misreporting." His latest book, Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent, was published by Routledge in May 2019. Follow him on Twitter: @AlanRMacLeod
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Views Friday, January 10, 2020 From Resistance to Assistance: Corporate Media's Pathetic Pushback to Trump's Iran Assassination After Donald Trump’s election, both the New York Times and Washington Post saw huge jumps in subscribers, all hoping that the outlets would hold the president to account. Both papers tapped into this sentiment: In February 2017, the Post adopted the motto “Democracy Dies in Darkness” on its... Read more |
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Views Sunday, December 22, 2019 Corporate Media Find All the Wrong Lessons for US Left in Corbyn's Defeat Conservative leader Boris Johnson swept to power in the U.K.'s December 12 elections, winning 365 of a possible 650 seats. Labour's socialist leader Jeremy Corbyn announced his resignation, after a bitterly disappointing night for his party. Across the spectrum, corporate media all came to the same... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, November 12, 2019 When the US Supports It, It's Not a Coup Army generals appearing on television to demand the resignation and arrest of an elected civilian head of state seems like a textbook example of a coup. And yet that is certainly not how corporate media are presenting the weekend’s events in Bolivia. No establishment outlet framed the action as a... Read more |
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Views Sunday, October 27, 2019 The Revolution Isn't Being Televised It's all kicking off everywhere in 2019. Haitians are revolting against a corrupt political system and their President Jovenel Moïse, who many see as a kleptocratic US puppet. In Ecuador, huge public manifestations managed to force President Lenín Moreno to backtrack on his IMF-backed neoliberal... Read more |
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Views Saturday, October 05, 2019 The Phony Liberalism of Bill Maher Bill Maher rose from being an “edgy,” opinionated comedian to becoming one of the most influential and recognizable faces in our media. His political talk show, Real Time With Bill Maher , has been on HBO since 2003, spanning 17 seasons with over 500 episodes to date. Real Time continues to be one... Read more |
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Views Sunday, September 15, 2019 Russia Has ‘Oligarchs,’ the US Has ‘Businessmen’ Even in corporate media, you will occasionally see references to the United States as an “oligarchy.” That is the judgment of former President Jimmy Carter, of peer-reviewed academic studies , and even opinion pieces in our most prestigious media (e.g., Washington Post , 4/8/14 ; New Yorker , 4/18/... Read more |
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Views Sunday, July 21, 2019 Media Just Can’t Stop Presenting Horrifying Stories as ‘Uplifting’ Perseverance Porn “THIS IS AWESOME!” That’s how Fox 5 DC described its story ( 5/28/19 ) about Logan Moore of Cedartown, GA, a disabled two-year-old whose parents were unable to afford to buy him a walker, so employees at Home Depot fashioned one together themselves for him. The story closely resembles another... Read more |
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Views Thursday, July 18, 2019 To Corporate Media, No Democrat Can Possibly Be Right-Wing The 2020 presidential candidacy race is in full (absurdly early) swing, and there is a clear and obvious internal battle currently raging for the soul of the Democratic Party. One faction is attempting to pull the party in a more populist, social-democratic direction, while another favors... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, May 15, 2019 For Democrats, So-Called ‘Purity Tests’ Can Be a Good Thing The Democratic primaries are heating up. One notable feature of the race is the strong presence of progressive candidates — which has many in the establishment wing of the party worried. Former president Barack Obama, whose moderate vice president Joe Biden is now in the race, recently decried the... Read more |
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Views Thursday, May 02, 2019 Venezuela: It’s Only a Coup if the US Government Says So It’s Groundhog Day again in Venezuela, as the local conservative opposition has launched another attempt to oust President Nicolás Maduro from power. Surrounded by a few hardcore supporters, Washington-backed self-appointed president Juan Guaidó on April 30 called on the military to rise up and... Read more |